[Solved] X logging to slim.log

Jimi · 2010-11-05 15:12:14

I went to bed after a night of playing Minecraft (using the AUR package) on the reddit minecraft server and awake to find that my root (/) partition was basically full. I went digging around and found that my /var/log/slim.log was 9.4G and when I opened it, it was full of Minecraft server logs. Mostly errors saying "Attempted to place a tile entity where there was no entity tile!" (common minecraft errors). I emptied the file, but I'm still oblivious as to why there were minecraft logs in the slim.log file. I'm posting this just to see if any other Minecraft players that use slim could see if they also have their logs there.

edit: Now there is also Mumble (the VoIP software) logs in slim.log. This is really freaking me out that multiple applications are being logged to slim's logfile.
edit: Okay, MANY different applications are now logging to slim.log. I think I'll try a reboot. Moderators, please move this to the correct subforum.

Last edited by Jimi (2010-11-06 01:02:59)

litemotiv · 2010-11-05 18:38:14

Moved to Workstation User.

manmachine · 2010-11-05 20:04:21

Do you have an .xsession_errors file in your home directory?
I think with slim all xsession related messages are logged in /var/log/slim.log instead.
So that would include most applications that you usually run in xorg.

If that's a problem look up the configuration for slim. there is a logfile parameter.

Last edited by manmachine (2010-11-05 20:07:30)

Jimi · 2010-11-06 00:04:50

The thing is, they aren't even errors apparently. It appears to be logging almost everything X related.

Here's a short bit of it:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/526668/

Jimi · 2010-11-06 01:02:42

Solution:
https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/slim … 00092.html

manmachine · 2010-11-06 10:31:22

Indeed that would be the 'proper' solution. That's the output that's normally redirected to ~/.xsession_errors or similar and it can grow big fast! So you can redirect it to a file (can be useful for troubleshooting gtk/xorg/etc.) or /dev/null.

CPUnltd · 2010-11-21 21:32:23

ok, I get that I have basically add "./example.pl > /dev/null 2>&1" to .xinitrc to keep all that data out of slim.log... but what is the exact command that I am adding? I wouldn't expect example.pl to be the file that is saving all those logs to slim.log... or am I wrong?

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#1 2010-11-05 15:12:14

[Solved] X logging to slim.log

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